Strategies and Trends for Information Technology Leaders
The stock market staged its biggest rally in four months on Wednesday, thanks to blowout quarterly results from Intel. Intel jumped 7.3% and rival AMD gained more than 8% on a day that saw the entire chip sector rise 5%. The Nasdaq was up 3.5%, as Intel’s results delivered the first solid hint of economic…
The Innovation Value Institute (IVI) at National University of Ireland (NUI) Maynooth today announced the launch of the IT Capability Maturity Framework (IT-CMF). The IT-CMF provides a concise management roadmap to optimize business value derived from IT investments. This unique framework has been proven to deliver greater business value from IT while reducing the complexity…
As we enter 2009 in a financial crisis, companies may be tempted to scale back and wait for a better day. Is this the right approach? Perhaps not, according to Bobby Cameron, vice president and principal analyst at Cambridge, Mass.-based Forrester Research. Cameron, who predicts the recession will end in the second half of 2009,…
After several months of turmoil, things came to a head at Sun Microsystems with the unpleasant pre-holiday news that around 6,000 people, 15 to 18 percent of its workforce, would be cut in a restructuring plan that the firm hopes will save $700 million to $800 million annually. The Santa Clara, California-based company declined to…
SAN FRANCISCO — What exactly is the cloud, and why should a company want to go there? That was the question put to four tech executives on a panel here at the Web 2.0 Summit Thursday. Cloud computing, the sexy name for Web-based applications, is a hot topic that’s been heating up even more recently…
If you’re confused about the different flavors of Vista in the store, then the varieties of Linux available will leave you gasping like a fish on a dock. Distrowatch, a site which tracks Linux’s different versions (or distributions, as they are called in the community), has well over four hundred listings. Faced with so many…
When CIOs made the jump from back office support to boardroom elite, many felt they had truly arrived. Celebrations may be a bit premature, however, since there is a marked difference between getting there and staying put. Keeping a seat at the boardroom table often boils down to a renewed focus on information management but…